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Karan Peri was previously the Vice president of product at Nansen and Head of product for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Coinbase. He is a graduate of Manchester Business School and IE Business School, University of Manchester, UK.
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Spencer Yang
Spencer Yang is a core contributor to Fractal Bitcoin, serves as a Venture Partner at Press Start Capital, and co-founded an NFT infrastructure company with products including the NFT API and Collection.xyz. He previously worked on product at Coinbase, specializing in retail derivatives, DEX, securities, and wallet businesses. Prior to that, he drove the platform's growth at CoinMarketCap, where he was responsible for growth, revenue and operations. Spencer Yang is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Haris Karavasilis
Haris Karavasilis is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Pod Network, having previously worked at Amazon.
Hish Bouabdallah
Hish Bouabdallah is the founder and CEO of Tribes Protocol, Inc. He is a graduate of Michigan State University with extensive experience leading development teams, developing iOS and Android apps, and working with blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. He has a proven track record of building complex, high-traffic, and high-performance applications, scaling databases, mobile apps, and backend services. His specialties include Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Solidity.
Edward Wilson
Edward Wilson is Marketing Lead at OneBalance and previously was Social media Manager at Nansen and Head of social media at Argent. He has a master's degree from the University of Sussex.
Christina Smedley
Christina Smedley is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Lightspark. She has led marketing, communications, content and branding teams at Amazon, Facebook/Meta, PayPal and Robinhood.
Patrick O'Grady
Patrick O'Grady is the founder of commonware and was previously VP of Engineering at Avalanche and a software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer science from Stanford University.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Boris Ilyevsky
Boris Ilyevsky is Head of Derivatives at Coinbase and previously was Chief Product Officer at FairX and Head of Market Development at IEX. He graduated from New York University.
Julian Koh
Julian Koh is the founder of Aevo and previously worked in software development at Coinbase/NumerAI. He studied computer science at Cornell University, but dropped out after two years.